Dear readers,

WHISPERS is an alternate history of the indigenous Americas, starting in 1031 AD. It chronicles the events and conflicts that begin to radically change the culture and lives of various tribes.

Zahn, a Chinese trader, takes his ship in the opposite direction from his competition, going north past Japan and then east, to a new world. There he finds new civilizations that need new technologies, and have two vast continents of virtually untouched resources to trade.

Trade between the two civilizations turns into mutual respect; when Zahn accidentally introduces smallpox to the new world, it welds him to the people and their future. Together they form a new Alliance that expands in all directions, and gains allies from the Golden Age Arabs, the Song Empire itself, and even the Varangian Guard and the Norse, who are fleeing cultural  annihilation in their homeland.

What emerges is a civilization that is based on Indigenous understandings of the world, even as it embraces new technologies and the realities of becoming a world power.

WHISPERS (95,000 words) is the first novel in a series. I have done extensive research to ensure that the story is accurate, until events in the story diverge from history. I am an ex-tradesman who now has three academic degrees, with concentrations in English, Psychology, and Biology, and I am a fully certified teacher in good standing with the BC College of Teachers, with over twenty years experience. I currently reside in Chilliwack, BC, and host the Seabird Writers Group at Seabird College, on Seabird Island First Nations Reserve, near Agassiz, BC.